Now that OmniFocus 3 has “Forecast Tag”, I plan to use the Forecast tab more often. I just learned about URL schemes and found this page for OF2: https://inside.omnifocus.com/url-schemes but the URL schemes for Forecast subheadings don’t seem to work:
omnifocus:///past
omnifocus:///today
omnifocus:///soon

@heyscottyj Thanks for the reply. For me omnifocus:///Forecast shows all of Forecast (past, today, and soon/future). I’m under the impression that omnifocus:///today isolates the Today portion (and same with Past and Soon). It would be nice to have just the Today portion as a URL scheme/keyboard shortcut to minimize distractions.

Also, I should be more clear of my setup right now. I have OF2 and OF3 beta on my Mac. The URL schemes (in general) seem to open only in OF3 so I can’t compare how the URL schemes work in OF2.

@nostodnayr Thanks. Good to know. I just checked it out. Hopefully, it’s just a bug that the URL schemes don’t work on OF3 Mac, and also more importantly omnifocus:///today doesn’t work on either.

Thanks for posting this! Found the relevant item in our development database and added a link to this thread. From what I’m seeing there, it looks like those links have always been iOS-only, but I made sure the rest of the team knows there’s interest in getting them supported on the Mac.

(Inferring from the “includes most of the same functionality” bit in the article, I’m guessing the difference was a known thing at the time. I was surprised to discover they were iOS-only, though!)

This is a bit of a stretch ask but here’s a real use case (mine). I checked OF3 on my iPhone, and omnifocus:///today linked to my Groceries perspective instead of the Forecast/Today perspective. I realized that that’s probably because I set my “Today & Watch” setting to display the Groceries custom perspective on the Today widget on iPhone (that screen when you swipe to the left of the home screen and lock screen). I did that so when I’m at the grocery store, I have a quick reference of what I need to get, without needing to unlock my phone. It’s much easier than 1) Unlock my phone, 2) go into OmniFocus, 2.5) Return to the main screen with my shortcuts if I was within certain projects or perspectives, 3) select the Groceries perspective.

I would think other people have different uses for that Today widget other than the Forecast as well. Any chance to change it so omnifocus:///today is not linked to whatever custom perspective the “Today & Watch” setting is set to? Hope I was clear.

Still on the to-do list. For better or worse, our development system tries to ensure that things which lots of people want get assigned the highest priority. We want to add this, in other words, but we can’t prioritize it above other requests which more folks have asked for.

(Adding you to that item in our development database so the rest of the team knows you’re one of the folks that want it.)